Leading the way in connectivity

Adelaide. Australia’s most connected city.

Adelaide’s position as Australia’s most connected city has been gaining momentum for over a decade through strategic project investment. The cornerstone of this achievement is Ten Gigabit Adelaide - Australia’s only ten gigabit per-second data network. Ten Gigabit Adelaide has already had a positive impact on creative, biomedical, and technological industries.

Investment and economic growth have been fuelled by active and collaborative relationships across all levels of government, universities, and the private sector, supporting innovation and entrepreneurship.

Sustainability is at the heart of City of Adelaide, ensuring innovative thinking is applied to achieve sustainable growth. The City of Adelaide, in a first for SA councils, will source our electricity from one hundred per cent renewable sources and our operations will be carbon neutral by the end of 2020.

A repeated acknowledgement as one of the world’s most liveable cities and an engrained culture of innovation highlights how Adelaide is designed for life.

Smart cities use technology to work more efficiently and improve the quality of life of its community. Comprehensive and real-time big data plays a pivotal role in a city’s ability to recognise patterns and learn valuable insights about needs such as security, transportation and the analysis of growth patterns to plan for the future. Technology such as sensors, cameras and network connections can be integrated with software, big data and artificial intelligence to allow for the automation of various processes, minimising error and the labour required to deliver outcomes.

Intelligent communities approach societal problems with the aim of developing long term solutions to deliver benefits beyond the scope required through tapping into local expertise. They are citizen-driven through engagement with the community, educational institutions and industry as partner in the planning and implementation of projects. An intelligent community approach ultimately saves money and time as well as generates a return on investment that is vastly greater than any technology project.